If you’re planning to seriously improve your fast bowling skills, you should probably be practicing at home as well as during net sessions with your cricket club. Most cricket clubs will run hourly practice sessions once a week, and unfortunately, bowling for one hour a week probably isn’t enough if you want to become a top level fast bowler. Practicing …
How To Measure Your Head For A Cricket Helmet
If you’re thinking about buying a cricket helmet online, you’re going to need to make sure you get the right size. Let’s face it, no-one wants the hassle of buying one, then finding out it’s the wrong size, then having to send it back and wait for a new one! So, if you’re wanting to buy a cricket helmet online …
How To Watch The Ball While Batting In Cricket
If you’re a batsman, watching the ball as it travels through the area is one of the most important things for you to learn how to do. A batsman who watches the ball well will be able to identify deliveries earlier, make positive foot movements and strike the ball with much greater accuracy. Watching the ball sounds very simple, but …
How To Bowl In Cricket – For Beginners!
There are a lot of different moving parts to a cricketer’s bowling action. For newcomers to the game, putting all of these moving parts together in order to create your own bowling action can seem like a complicated task! Especially when you first start trying to bowl, the whole movement can feel really unnatural and strange. Trust me, I’ve been …
How To Bat Against Spin – 10 Useful Tips
Spin bowlers are such a large part of the game of cricket, yet still we see so many batsmen not being properly prepared to face them. Having a plan of how you’re going to play against spin bowlers is hugely important, whether you’re batting on day 5 of a test match on a turning pitch, or even if you’re playing …
How To Improve Your Batting Strike Rate
As the shorter formats of cricket like 50 over cricket and T20 continue to increase in popularity, batsmen are finding themselves under a lot more pressure to score their runs quickly! Because of this new pressure, a lot of batsmen are wondering how they can improve their strike rates and score more runs in a shorter period. By doing this, …
What Does ‘Strike Rate’ Mean In Cricket?
Strike rate is a cricketing term that has multiple meanings. Which meaning is appropriate depends on which sort of player the term is describing! For example, strike rate can mean a certain thing when it is referring to a batsman, and then a totally different thing when it is referring to a bowler! As you can see, it’s another one …
Best Cricket Bags For 2020
Cricket bags are one of the most essential items for cricketers to purchase! It is a sport that requires us to carry a lot of equipment around with us, and as a result, we need something suitable to carry it all in. Whether you’re a junior player or a senior player, whether you travel to your matches by car or …
The 17 Most Essential Batting Tips For Cricket
Batting is arguably the most glamorous part of the game of cricket, and this is one of the main reasons we should all want to improve our batting skills! If you can learn to bat better you will enjoy the game a lot more, and you’ll also contribute more heavily to the success of your team. Based on some of …
How To Play The Cover Drive – The Ultimate Guide
In my opinion the cover drive is one of the most beautiful sights in cricket. When you see it played perfectly, you know you are watching a batsman that is fully in control of many different parts of their game. To play the cover drive consistently well, you will need to display precise foot movement, good head position, a smooth …
